None of the German radar sets were spectacular. By American and British standards, they were terrible. METOX, in particular, was nasty because its range was poor, it relied early in its life on the crude Biscay Cross, which was fixed and had to be manually adjusted, and worst of all was detectable. Black May saw the greatest use of the METOX and not so coincidentally, this was the month that lost the Second Battle of the Atlantic for Germany. It was bad enough with HF/DF and the Enigma compromised, but the detectability of the METOX was the literal nail in the coffin. I know that in stock UBM, this detectability is modeled. Once I replaced my set with Naxos, I did not have as much trouble, but German radar was unreliable, at best.
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